Open Forum (9/8– )

No more concerts in the park, fewer and fewer beach days (for average folks), more homework.

MBC ran a little poll last year around this time to capture readers' Summer activities. A similar poll is posted now – let us know what you did in town. We'll run the poll all week, till Sunday night at 8pm.

Dialing back, last year produced a September to remember, in a rather awful sense. Markets collapsing, weekly bailouts and nationalizations, the scramble for solutions. Here's hoping for a brighter Fall.

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In real estate news, Blake Roberts already wrote essentially the story MBC might have about the recent closed sale at 881 10th – $2.150m for a home purchased for $2.8m just 3 years earlier, a 23% drop in that span.